In the winter holidays I’ve got a brand new Sony PSP. It has a big screen for a portable device and it’s designed for playing games but I’m using it mainly for book reading. The primary reader is Bookr for pdf files (and, in the future, lit files after I’ll finish a plugin for it but this will take other 3-4 months at least). The main disadvantage reading on the screen is that you’ll have to do a lot of scrolling as the normal page height is two or three times the height of the visible screen. But there is a very simple solution if you can generate your own files.
If you set the pdf’s page size to a specific value then it will fit on the PSP’s screen. By seeing one full page at a time all you have to do is to flip through them (much simpler than using the stick to scroll while reading). This specific page size can be computed by taking into account that the PSP screen has 130 dpi and that OpenOffice (yes, I’m using it for office work and pdf saving) is using 72 dpi to render to PDF. As the psp screen is 3.69” width and 2.09” height the page size has to be set to 6.67” width and 3.78” height. Optionally you can adjust the font size to obtain a nice looking book for your device… Just check the document, export as PDF and upload on PSP.
Happy reading!
